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Nearly 400 people have shed their locks at a local fundraiser to raise money for children’s cancer research. And organizers are hoping that number will grow even higher.
The fifth annual St. Baldrick’s fundraiser is set for Saturday, March 24. The event will be at Campbellsville University’s Powell Athletic Center. Campbellsville resident Donna Wise is again coordinating the event.

Vicki Mullins gets her hair trimmed about every four weeks. But after March 24 she won’t be making many trips to the salon for quite some time.
That’s because Mullins has decided to buzz her head in an effort to raise awareness about cancer, and join others in the St. Baldrick’s Shaving for a Cure.
Nobody knows better than Mullins about what cancer can do. She has lost two husbands, a brother and a father to cancer. To date she has raised $1,800 with another $700 in pledges.

Those who haven’t bought their Tagalongs or Samoas are in luck.
Girl Scout cookie booth sales begin tomorrow and will be at various locations in Taylor and surrounding counties for the next few weeks.
Though this year’s advanced sales were down a bit from last years, there are still a few weeks left to go in the cookie season, which ends March 19.
There will be a booth sale at Walmart each Saturday through March 19. For complete details, see the chart that accompanies this story.

The Taylor County Detention Center isn’t financially supporting itself just yet, but according to the budget figures, it’s pretty close.
Members of Taylor County Fiscal Court’s Budgets, Audits and Personnel Committee met last Friday to discuss the detention center’s 2012-2013 budget, along with the status of the county’s 2011-2012 budget.

It seems Gov. Steve Beshear wasn’t dealt the winning hand he had hoped for.
Senate Bill 151, which would have added an amendment to the constitution allowing expanded gaming, was defeated in the Senate last Thursday by a vote of 21 to 16.

The Lindsey Wilson College community welcomed a new national honor society to campus recently; Alpha Phi Sigma, the national criminal justice honor society. Several Campbellsville residents are a part of the group.

In his early 20s while working in the 1980 Presidential Campaign and later as a White House aid, Doug Bandow got to know the late President Ronald Reagan.

A special assistant to Reagan, Bandow said an extended amount of time has passed since the day Reagan left office on Jan. 20, 1989. However, Bandow said some of Reagan's ideals are still evident within the walls of the Oval Office.

"At 21 years of age I was on the verge of suicide," Jay Lowder, founder of Jay Lowder Harvest Ministries of Wichita Falls, Texas, said. "I truly believe if my roommate hadn't come home early from work that day, I would be lost in an eternity in hell."